It is unlikely that someone will be indifferent to a blouse or jeans, embroidered manually with a cross or stitch. Embroidery, made on clothes with their own hands, not only decorates the product, but also gives it significance and personality. To create a decor, you need to choose the right threads and patterns, familiarize yourself with the embroidery technique, hone your skills on old things and, having patience, get to work. Embroidery can be either manual or machine. In any case, a unique pattern or logo is created, indicating that the textile product belongs to a particular master.
Where to begin?
If you really want to embroider an expensive blouse with wonderful flowers, and at the same time, a person has never held needles in his hands, then, of course, first you need to acquire the first embroidery skills. There are many workshops on embroidery stitch, cross, Richelieu. They need to be reviewed and determined with the technique of work.
Beginners should start with a cross. Having a little practice on a separate piece of fabric, you can begin to create a pattern on clothes. On the shirt, the gate, as well as cuffs and pockets - that is, those parts of the product that are always in sight, will be an excellent area for applying embroidery.
To simplify your work, you need to choose patterns with repeating fragments. At the initial stage of creativity, they will not cause difficulties. With the acquisition of experience and improvement of skills, it will be possible to begin to create complex multi-color compositions on the back, chest or sleeves of the product.
How to prepare clothes and choose threads?
Embroidery is a long and painstaking process, so you should not decorate a product that sheds or sits during the first wash. To protect yourself from these troubles, before starting work you need to wash your blouse or jeans in the mode specified by the manufacturer.
Threads for embroidery should be selected especially carefully. Only branded floss threads meet all the requirements of strength and aesthetic appeal.
3 main attributes of high quality embroidery threads:
- resistance to fading;
- bright and clean coloring;
- compliance of a shade to a license plate.
Experienced craftswomen prefer the following manufacturers:
- DMC (France);
- Madeira (Germany)
- Anchor (Great Britain);
- Gamma (Russia);
- Bestex (China).
If you have to use a floss of an unknown manufacturer, then the threads must be checked for color fastness. To do this, wrap a small skein in white cloth and rinse with hot water. It is better not to use thread dyeing fabric for embroidery.
Stitch embroidery
Stitch embroidery is appropriate on jeans, and on a plain T-shirt, and on a knitted sweater.
To work, you will need the following materials and tools:
- pencil;
- thread floss;
- scissors;
- hoop.
Decorating a product with embroidery takes place in several stages.
- The selected pattern or logo must be transferred to the fabric. To do this, you can use a special marker designed for drawing on fabric.
- A piece of material with the displayed pattern is pulled onto the hoop.
- Embroider the pattern with stitch, observing each line and all the outlines of the prepared scheme. The greater the addition of threads, the larger and more natural the image will be.
Jeans embroidered with a satin finish look original and exclusive. Such an unusual design decorates everyday clothes, turning them into a weekend.
Cross-stitch
For those who own the technique of cross-stitching, embroidering a blouse or jeans with exotic flowers, dragons, peacocks and other patterns is easy. The main thing is to choose the scheme of the image you like, buy the threads of the appropriate color and canvas.
If the scheme is selected, and at home from the grandmother there are supplies of floss and only the canvas is not enough for work, you can make it yourself. To do this, take a piece of light cotton fabric and draw out the transverse thread and the weft thread so that a square forms. Homemade canvas is ready - you can get to work.
The canvas is applied to the area where the drawing is planned to be placed, and together with the material of the product, it is hooped. According to the scheme, the logo or the selected image is embroidered. When the drawing is ready, the canvas threads are carefully removed with scissors or tweezers.
Clothing with cross-stitch looks stylish, elegant, fashionable, therefore, is in great demand.
Machine embroidery
Previously, about 20 years ago, exclusive machine embroidery on his clothes could only be made to order in the studio. Modern sewing machines have many useful functions, one of which is the ability to embroider. In addition, there are inexpensive embroidery machines with which you can create colorful compositions from cotton or silk threads.
Embroidery is not only interesting, but also a useful activity that calms the nervous system, develops fine motor skills of the hands, and develops perseverance and attentiveness. Clothing, manually embroidered with a mouline thread, looks unusual and beautiful, always attracts curious looks and causes admiration.